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56 lines
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Libwww-perl is a collection of Perl modules which provides
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a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the
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World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to
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provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW
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clients, thus libwww-perl said to be a WWW client library.
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The library also contain modules that are of more general
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use.
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The main architecture of the library is object oriented.
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The user agent, requests sent and responses received from
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the WWW server are all represented by objects. This makes
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a simple and powerful interface to these services. The
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interface should be easy to extend and customize for your
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needs.
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The main features of the library are:
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o Contains various reuseable components (modules) that
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can be used separately or together.
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o Provides an object oriented model of HTTP-style
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communication. Within this framework we currently
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support access to http, gopher, ftp, news, file, and
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mailto resources.
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o The library be used through the full object oriented
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interface or through a very simple procedural
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interface.
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o Support the basic and digest authorization schemes.
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o Transparent redirect handling.
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o Supports access through proxy servers.
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o URL handling (both absolute and relative URLs are
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supported).
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o A parser for robots.txt files and a framework for
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constructing robots.
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o An experimental HTML parser and formatters (for
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PostScript and plain text).
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o The library can cooperate with Tk. A simple Tk-based
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GUI browser called 'tkweb' is distributed with the Tk
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extention for perl.
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o An implementation of the HTTP content negotiation
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algorithm that can be used both in protocol modules and
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in server scripts (like CGI scripts).
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o A simple command line client application called lwp-
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request.
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